Hogshead



July 1950 L. BARKLEY, JR

HOGSHEAD 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Aug. 6, 1949 INVENTOR: EAQNEST L. BARKLEY, J12.

ATTORNEY Patented July 11, 1950 OFFICE i 'HOGS HEAD Earnest L. Barkley, Jr., Reidsville, N. 0. Application August 6, 1949, Serial No. 108,980

' 2 Claims.

I This invention relates to. a hogshead into which tobacco is placed forstoring purposes. p a 'It is an object of this invention to provide a hogshead having removable:heads and instead of the walls thereof being tubular and in one piece, it has two semi-circular sections 'detachably see cured together withteach semi-circular section having a binder strip adjacent each end thereof for confining the head portions therein and the two semi-circular portions of the hogshead comprising a plurality, of staves'which are secured to suitable semi-circular hoops'and the binder strips being laid into sections, that is, cut transversely at pointsagreeing with the proximate sides ofsome of the staves so that the two semicircular portionscan be folded substantially flat to thus occupy very much less space during transp t. I

It is well known that after tobaccohas been placed in a hogsheadunder considerable pres-. sure, itis necessary to inspectthe tobacco therein atcertain times to determine the state of the tobacco; It is, therefore; necessary -to provide means wherebya portion of the hogshead.v may be opened without permanently disturbing: the stavesor head members therein and which may be replacedtooriginal position. p v

It is, therefore,-another object-of this invention to provide a hogshead comprising; top and bottom head portions secured betweentwo semicircular halves with means for hingedly securing the semi-circular halves together.

It is a further object of this invention to provide a hogshead of the class described with a binder strip secured permanently at each of the upper and lower endsoi the halves and which binder strips are disposed in end to end relation and each binder strip having a length which is equal to the width of one or more of the staves to which it is attached. These binder strips norbacco as it is being pressed downwardly into the a hogshead along with the head portion by a suitable press will cause the upper end of the hogshead to flare outwardly sufliciently to allow the head portion to move downwardly to pass the binder strip. After this is done, suitable bands 2 a or chains may be placed around the upper portion of the hogshead to pull the two halves together so that the hinges may be secured together, In the present invention, a suitable tool having two portions may be inserted in suitable openings in the two hinged sections to draw the two sections of the hogshead together to where a suitable retaining pin can be placed therein, without the necessity of employing chains and suitable pullingmeans for compressing the semi-circular side portions to where the heads will be confined and to where the removable pins can be inserted in the hinges on the proximate ends of the hoops for the two halves.

Some of the objects of the invention having been stated, other objects will appear as the description proceeds, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an isometric view of my improved hogshead with portions broken away;

Figure 2 is an end view looking down 'on- Fig-: urel; i "f Figure 3 is an enlarged top plan view-showingthe junction point of the connecting hinges;

Figure 4 is a vertical sectional view taken along the line 4--4 in'Figure 1;

Figure 5 is an isometric view of the upper portion of Figure 1 and showing the two halves of the hogshead slightly separated from each, other;

Figure 6 is an elevation showing the two semicircular portionsin collapsed position;

Figure 7 is a view looking down on one end of the hogshead and showinghow thetwo por tions can be brought together by means of a suit able tool;

Figure 8 is an elevation looking at one of the hinged connections and showing the two portions thereof connected together;

Figure 9 is a top plan view of the structure shown in Figure 8 and is taken along the line 99 in Figure 8.

Referring more specifically to the drawings, the numerals l0 and H indicate semi-circular portions of a hogshead which are formed from a plurality of staves l2. These staves l2 are secured together by a plurality of hoops I3, l4, l5 and I6 which are preferably of strap iron. These hoops l3, l4, I5 and [6 are semi-circular, that is, extend halfway around the hogshead and cooperate with other half-length hoops l1, l8, l9 and 20.

Each end of each of the hoops [3 to IE, inclusive,'has a half hinge 22 secured thereto, and each end of the hoops [1 to 20, inclusive, has a half hinge 23 secured thereto. Suitable bolts 3 24 penetrate the hoops I3 to Hi, inclusive, and also one of the staves I2 and the bolts for the uppermost and lowermost hoops also penetrate a section of a binder strip 25. The other half hinges are secured in position by means of bolts 26 which penetrate the half hinges 23 and their associated hoops I1, l8, l9 and 20, as the case may be, and also the binder strips 25 which are disposed at each end of the hogshead, only one of which is shown in the drawings.

The half hinges 22 each have'a plurality of cylindrical projections 30, 3| and 32 extending therefrom, though some of these may be omitted, if desired, while the half hinges 23 each have'a plurality of cylindrical members welded thereto indicated at 313, 34 and 35. A suitable tool'indicated at 40 has a right angular portion 4| which may be inserted in one of the cylindrical members 33, 34 or 35 of the hinge 23 and it has a leg 44 pivoted as at 45 to lever 40 and this has a right angular portion 46. which may be inserted in. any one of the projections 30, 3| or 32 for pulling the two sections of the hogshead together to where-a pin 41 may be inserted between ears 48 and 49 on 'half hinge 22 and between an ear 50 on half hinge 123 which fits between ears *48 and 49 on half hinge .22.

It will be noted that the binder strips 25 are not semi-circular, but are cut into arcuateisections coinciding with a junction point of two staves so that the semi-circular sections of the hogshead may be folded substantially fiat as the strap iron hoops l3 to 20 will bend at these points when the sections of the hogshead are to be transported from one place to another. The binder strips 25 serve to confine the head portions- 53 which are preferablyof thick plywood material, only one of these head portions being shown in the drawings, the other end :of the hogshead being identical to the end shown in Figure 1.

By having the binder strips 25 cut into :segments, it is possible to loosen the two top hinges 22 and 2-3 and remove the pins 41 therefrom and swing outward-1 y the first section of each of the semi-circular sections to inspect the :tobacco therein without having to swing the entire two semi-circular sections apart from each other as in Patent Number 2,127,435 of August '16, 1938.

In the drawings and. specification there has been set forth a preferred form of the invention, and "although specific terms are employed, they are used in a generic and'descriptive sense only,

4 and not for purposes of limitation, the scope of the invention being defined in the claims.

I claim:

1. A hogshead comprising two semi-circular sections having semi-circular hoops secured on their exteriors, the semi-circular sections being formed from a plurality of staves in side by side relation, a binder strip disposed near each end of the hogshead and on the interior surface thereof and behind which a head member is adapted to be confined, said hoops having a pair of projections on one end thereof and a single projection on the other end thereof adapted to ,fit between a pair of projections on an adjacent end of a complementary hoop section, pins disposed in said projections to hold the hogshead .in closed position, each of the binder strips being in the form of several segments abutting in end to end relation at a point where two associated staves are abutting in edge to edge relation, either of said head members being removable by removing the pins from the proximate semicircular hoop members, each of the hoops adjacent the ends thereof having tubular members secured thereto and through which the two portions of a pulling instrument may be inserted for applying pressure .to swing the ends of the hoop sections into position to where the central single projection on one end of a hoop section will pass between the pair of projections on one end of a complementary hoop section.

2. A hogshead comprising a pair of semi-circular sections formed from a plurality of staves and being secured together by a plurality of semi-circular metallic hoop members secured to the outside of said staves, the inner surfaces of said staves near their ends having a plurality of binder strips disposed in end to end relation thereto and having their proximate end sections coinciding with the proximate edges of two adjacent staves, the ends of the hoopsections having spaced complementaryprojections thereon provided withopenings so that when the hoop sections are brought into overlapping relation, a suitable pin can be passed therethrough, the ends of the hoop sections having tubular members welded to their exterior surface and into which two portions of a suitable pulling tool can be inserted for bringing the ends of the hoop sections together to-confine the head members within the ends of the hogshead.

EARNEST L. BARKLEY, JR.

No references cited. 

